Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

Dennis A. Jacobsen

Apr 2017 · Fortress Press

About this ebook

Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to- day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the authors decades of experience in community organizing ministry and skillfully illustrated with examples, Dennis A. Jacobsen weaves theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena and discusses fundamental organizing principles like power, self-interest, and agitation. The second, updated edition includes a new preface and forewords, new sidebars by Grant Stevensen that draw the reader into conversation, an expanded list for further reading, and updated contact information on organizing networks and relevant websites.

About the author

Dennis Jacobsen pastored Incarnation Lutheran Church in Milwaukee for twenty-six years and for twenty of those years was Director of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, a network of over one thousand religious leaders. He is an active leader in MICAH (Milwaukee Inner city Congregations Allied for Hope) and the author of Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Fortress Press).

Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a Methodist pastor serving an Episcopal church in Detroit, the cofounder of Word and World People's School, and founding faculty member of the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) in Chicago. He is the author of Where the Water Goes Around: Beloved Detroit and Seasons of Faith and Conscience: Reflections on Liturgical Direct Action.